Causes Quote by Anne Carson

Metaphor creates a kind of conceptual synesthesia, in which we understand one concept in the context of another.

— James Geary

Metaphors get under your skin by ghosting right past the logical mind.

— Jane Hirshfield

Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.

— Roberto Bolano

“Wrong, and wrong agains,' he said. 'The likeness is already there. The metaphor only sees it. And it is not a mere figure of…

— Connie Willis

“It's a mind, it works by metaphor.”

— Simon J. Townley

Metaphor matters because it creates expectations.

— James Geary

The essence of metaphor is understanding and experiencing one kind of thing in terms of another.

— George Lakoff

“Aristotle said29 that "the greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor. It is the one thing that cannot be learnt…

— Robert Bosnak

Metaphor is one of a group of problem-solving medicines known as figures of speech which are normally used to treat literal thinking and other…

— Grant Morrison

“Metaphors are dangerous. Calling something by a false name changes it, and metaphor is just a fancy way of calling something by a false…

— G. Willow Wilson

“A metaphor is a kind o' lie to help people understand what's true.”

— Terry Pratchett

I think that metaphor really is a key to explaining thought and language. The human mind comes equipped with an ability to penetrate the…

— Steven Pinker